compositions



COMPOSITIONS,

UNITED, STATES JOSE ALTIMIRA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DETERG-ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 512,853, dated December8, 1896.

\ Application filed July 3, 1896. Serial No. 597,920- (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J 08E ALTIMIRA, a subject of the King of Spain, anda resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have invented and discovered a certain new and useful compositionof matter to be used for all kinds of washing, and especially forcleaning printing-molds, of which the following is a speciro fication.

My composition consists of the following ingredients in the proportionsstated, viz:

. pure water, seventy-five gallons; soa -bark, (Qm'lldiztgsaponaria,rosacca) five pounds;

essence o peppermint, four ounces; ashes of QOLKiIfiQLEHIE (Q sub, 31 7:7-

six pounds; soda-ash fifty pounds; chlorid of lime, eight poun s; as esof "re e-vines, eight pounds, this solution when uses'to be furtherdiluted with from five to twenty-five per cent.

of water, according to the strength required.

It may be used for washing the finest fabrics,

wool, silk, cotton, kit'll en utefsifsicfockei'y,

general housfe cleaniiig, ande'sp'ecially for all kinds of printing"molds andtypes. It may be applied with brush or rag or simply as awashing fluid in which the article to be cleaned The ashes ofgrape-vines are now imported by me from Catalonia, Spain, via Barcelona,0 but they are simply the collected ashes of the cultivated grape-vine,'i. e., the vine cultivated for the purposes of wine culture, and theFlorida or California varieties of that vine may also be used.

The ashes of cork-tree.bark are likewise imported by me from Catalonia,Spain, where this tree grows, via Barcelona.

The essence of peppermint is the ordinary peppermint of commerce and isused simply 4o .1051? ALTIMIRA.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL H. CoHN, HERMAN M. SOLOMON.

may be immersed.

